Deathscapes

Jimmy Mubenga - secret deportation - parallax 1

Secret deportation flights

The UK government also uses secret charter flights to deport thousands of failed asylum seekers and refugees. Many activists and organisations claim that forceful deportation is violent, abusive and potentially unlawful (mediadiversified.org, Nadine El-Enany, 2018). It can be inferred from some studies that deportation is a discrimination in disproportionately as it is affecting people racialised as non-white (The Migration Observatory, 2018).

In other situations, pilots have stopped deportation by refusing to fly the plane: for example, a Turkish airline pilot: